I do plan to complain to who ever funds this (free) course, when I
finish it. Which is part of the reason I was asking about WYSIWYG
editors for Linux. But now we're getting a little off topic for this
list, so I'll leave it at that.
Thanks to all who gave advice,
Aidan
On 20/09/2007, at 8:42 AM, Carl Cerecke wrote:
On 19/09/2007, Aidan Gauland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And on an unrelated matter: what would be the closest free and open
source program to Microsoft Front Page? I have never used it, but
I'm taking this REALLY brain-dead distance course in "Internet and
webpages", and the people running this thing said, before I applied,
that using Linux would be no problem, and yet they only give
instructions for MS Front Page.
Because education funding is a bums-per-seat model, there is pressure
on education providers to get you in regardless of your suitability to
the course. I recommend you dig out the email that said Linux was OK,
and put a bit of pressure on the instructor to provide linux
instructions.
I say this as a former computer-science educator, not as a previously
disgruntled student (which I'm not, BTW). Part of the problem is that
even though a capable software developer might enjoy and even prefer
teaching, writing code will pay about 2x what a teaching job will pay.
That's my experience anyway.
Cheers,
Carl.
